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More than 2,200 people died in Mediterranean in 2024, UN finds

Figure includes hundreds of children, who make up one in five migrants trying to reach Europe fleeing war and poverty

The Guardian - UK

Italy's Salvini faces verdict for blocking migrants at sea. Case weighs limits of stemming migration

Italy’s deputy premier, Matteo Salvini, is sounding defiant as he awaits a verdict in Sicily for preventing some 100 migrants from disembarking a rescue boat in 2019 when he was interior minister

The Independent UK

Pope Francis Calls For Compassion In Prayer Vigil For Migrants And Refugees

The Pope urges nations to increase legal pathways for migration and combat criminal networks exploiting migrants.

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A decade after Lampedusa boat tragedy, Mediterranean remains world's deadliest migrant route

As record numbers of migrants continue to arrive on the small Italian island of Lampedusa, FRANCE 24 looks back at the shipwreck of 2013, which saw 368 people drown off the island. Our reporters met a witness to the tragedy, a survivor and the island's doctor who registered the deaths.…

France 24

Pope Francis 'is not being listened to' on plight of migrants, expert says

Pope Francis is visiting the southern French port city of Marseille to show solidarity with the plight of migrants there. It comes a decade on from a landmark visit to the Italian island of Lampedusa at the start of his papacy, where he condemned the "global indifference" to their suffering.…

France 24

France 'will not welcome migrants' from Lampedusa, says minister

France says it will not welcome any migrants coming from the Italian island of Lampedusa, which last week saw a record number of arrivals.

Radio France Internationale

France to support Italy in 'securing its border' against illegal migrants

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin visited Rome on Monday to discuss migration, after a week of mass arrivals on the Italian island of Lampedusa forced a European-wide response.

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Italy cracks down on migrants as Meloni calls for a naval blockade off North Africa

The measures approved by the Cabinet focused on migrants who don't qualify for asylum and are slated to be repatriated to their home countries.

WEKU

Amid migration crisis, Italy set to pass stricter measures on arrivals

Last week, almost 10,000 people arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Al Jazeera

Italy mulls new migrant crackdown as talk turns to naval blockade to prevent launching of boats

The Italian Cabinet is meeting to adopt new measures to crack down on migration

The Independent UK

EU chief promises ‘action plan’ as Italy sees surge of asylum seekers

EU chief empahsises need for surveillance via sea and land as Italian island of Lampedusa reports record arrivals.

Al Jazeera

EU vows emergency plan for Italy after surge in migrant arrivals

The European Union presented Sunday an emergency plan for Italy to help it handle migrant arrivals after a record number of people landed on its island of Lampedusa over the past week.

Radio France Internationale

EU and Italian leaders tour tiny Lampedusa as tensions rise over surge in migrant arrivals

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday toured a migrant center on Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa that was overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a 24-hour period this week

The Independent UK

Top EU official heads to an Italian island struggling with migrant influx as Italy toughens stance

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen plans to travel on Sunday to the Italian island of Lampedusa amid an influx of migrants who arrived this week

The Independent UK

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France 24

EU’s von der Leyen announces plan to address migrant crisis during Lampedusa visit

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged the swift return of irregular migrants and a crackdown on the “brutal business” of migrant smuggling Sunday during a visit with Italy's premier to a tiny fishing island overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a single day this week.

The Independent UK

Bus with migrants crashes as Italy transfers new arrivals to relieve pressure on Lampedusa island

A bus reportedly transporting recently arrived migrants has slammed into a truck north of Rome, killing the two drivers

Radio France Internationale

Germany halts deal to take in migrants arriving from Italy as numbers surge

The German government said it has stopped taking in migrants from Italy under a European voluntary solidarity plan, in what could shape up to be a new standoff over asylum seekers in the bloc. This comes as the Italian island of Lampedusa receives a record number of new arrivals.

The Independent UK

Tiny Italian island coping with thousands of migrants who arrived in a short span

A migrant reception center in Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa is overwhelmed as it copes with transferring to the mainland thousands of migrants who arrived on small, unseaworthy boats in a 24-hour span this week

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Al Jazeera

‘You have to do it’: Refugees in Tunisia undeterred by Lampedusa shipwreck

Despite deaths at sea, refugees in the port of Sfax are still adamant about trying to reach Europe by boat.

Evening Standard

Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy

Four survivors have reportedly told the Italian Coast Guard that three children were on board

Al Jazeera

At least two killed, dozens missing in shipwrecks off Italy’s coast

Italian coastguard says it has recovered two bodies and rescued 57 people after two boats sink off island of Lampedusa.

Reuters

Italy rescues around 1,600 migrants in Mediterranean in last two days

Italy has rescued 47 boats carrying around 1,600 migrants in the central Mediterranean sea in the last two days and brought them ashore to the island of Lampedusa.

The Independent UK

Over 1,000 migrants reach Italian isle; 23 reported missing

Some 1,200 migrants have arrived since Sunday on a tiny Italian island

WEKU

2 people are dead, 20 missing, as a migrant boat sinks off the coast of Tunisia

The boat sank over the weekend in the Mediterranean Sea between Tunisia and Italy. About 25 people were rescued. Thousands of migrants have reached Italy's tiny Lampedusa island in the past few days.

The Guardian - US

‘A portrait of defeat’: inside a revealing film about Pope Francis

Gianfranco Rosi’s intimate new documentary In Viaggio: The Travels of Pope Francis follows the pontiff as he confronts contentious issues around the world

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